We anticipated this might happen the night before as the upper level plots were showing significant early flow. Sometimes we can see the land breezes tap into this flow early on then soon as the sun comes up, the flow mixes out. Check out Deer Island this morning: You can see the…
Just caught a good example in the VA area of conditions that reflect two of my staple bullet points in synoptic setups such as the one we are seeing today. (*Heads up for fluky conditions / shifty directions as each synoptic feature changes position / gains and or loses influence) and (*Showers and or thunderstorms…
Record Breaking Fall Storms Autumn has wasted no time in asserting a cold wet hand on the Northwest this September. The last two weekends of the month contained stormy weather, especially near the Coast. During three days, September 28-30, a rare heavy hitting, winter style storm series pasted the Pacific Northwest with copious amounts of…
5 Sept 2013 – Columbia River Gorge – The forecast today calls for building strong and very gusty westerlies amidst abundant rain showers and thunderstorms. Why so? Notice the following slide …
MA’s morning push behaved as expected, so why did the Cape last so long? If we check out the pics below, the answer seems to be clear. Take a look at the surface map… See how the isobars between the high and the cold front reach way up into Canada? It’s cold up there;) Cold…
So you may be thinking to yourself… There’s a cold front approaching our area from the W, so I just might get a session in today. Well, in an ideal approaching cold front setup with a strong well positioned center of low pressure associated with the boundary and a strong high pressure out in the…
South and SW gradient winds have a seriously hard time reaching the surface along the Connecticut coastline due to the topography of Long Island and the quite cool waters of Long Island Sound. Usually the southerly flow is a warm flow and thus the winds decouple over the waters and land inland. Not…
We suspected this might happen today. Our briefing last night we mentioned it might, and in the update this morning we increased our forecast numbers for Pt. Judith. Good thing we did! In these post frontal days, we can often see a secondary trough that gets established along the central RI waters and…